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Buck Divecha
Ramesh Vithaldas Divecha
Born: 18 October 1927, Kadakvadi, Maharashtra
Major Teams: Oxford University, Northamptonshire, Mumbai, Madhya Pradesh, Saurashtra, India.
Known As: Buck Divecha
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break, Right Arm Fast Medium
Test Debut: India v England at Calcutta, 3rd Test, 1951/52
Last Test: India v Pakistan at Madras, 4th Test, 1952/53
Career Statistics:
TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 5 5 0 60 26 12.00 0 0 5 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 174 44 361 11 32.81 3-102 0 0 94.9 2.07
FIRST-CLASS
(career: 1948 - 1962/63)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100s Ct St
Batting & Fielding 61 88 18 1423 92 20.32 0 35 0
R W Ave BBI 5 10
Bowling 5401 217 24.88 8-74 9 0
- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.
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Profile:
A rather burly right arm medium pace bowler who could bowl off breaks
if the situation warranted and a useful tailend batsman, `Buck'
Divecha was a familiar figure in England. Not only did he play in the
Lancashire league, he also represented Northamptonshire against
Australia in 1948. As luck would have it his only tour with an Indian
team was to England in 1952. He had a fair measure of success in the
first class games, taking 50 wickets (25.88). He played in two Tests
and in the first of these bowled 45 overs in blustery conditions to
bag three wickets - Hutton and Graveney among them - for 102 runs. In
the next Test he had another long bowl of 33 overs and took David
Sheppard's wicket for 60 runs.
Divecha had earlier played in two Tests against England in
1951-52. On his debut he took two wickets in each innings and scored
26 at No 9. He was also a member of the Indian team that scored its
first Test win at Madras in 1952. In the Test against Pakistan at
Madras in 1952-53 - which proved to be his last game - Divecha picked
up the wickets of Hanif and Imtiaz. An Oxford University `Blue' in
1951, Divecha played for Bombay for many years and during a first
class career that stretched 17 years, picked up 217 wickets (24.88).
(Partab Ramchand)
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